Bravo, Marcus! 👏🏻

Family ok??

Hello Marcus, lots of useful information about hiring an EV in Portugal; thanks for sharing your experience. The directors at Sixt could learn from your experience too. Sixt specialises in buying cars from manufacturers on cheap deals. Hence it is not surprising that Sixt did not pay a lot extra for 50kW DC option. However, there is a risk that customers will have a bad experience with 22kW AC charging, particularly when a charge point might actually charge much slower. For a rental car, the customer needs instructions how to see the charging rate and advice to move to a different charge point when the machine is slow. The 22kW charging would be OK for local driving but the 50kW charging is needed for a long trip. Car rental companies need to find a way to inform customers at booking which version is needed. For example, the AC version could be flagged as 'local' or 'urban' and the DC as 'highway' or 'touring'. ☮️

Marcus where have you been? Get making those videos. You have been missed.

Sixt is a family owned business – met the old founder ERICH SIXT in the 1990s explaining his growth and marketing plans back when it had been a partner of budegt and had been called Sixt Budget. He was famous for his ads in newspapers that were usually pretty funny.
Usually a pretty good point to rent a car for cheap or even to rent it for a long time, not having to sign a lease contract.
They are masters for cheap offers cause they had learned to buy just cars that are cheaper and to help the car manufacturers who had a bad launch or messed things up cause he gets those exceptional cheap and exclusive and Sixt would start its own marketing campaign that will promote the car a lot better and increase sales.

In germany it is a brand you have to check for their prices first cause usually they are hard to beat.
Great explanation of all the big points.

Hi Marcus, is it me or has it been a while?
You're lucky finding a short term hire and at a decent rate, I've not had much luck over here 🇬🇧 in my neck of the woods. All good now though, managed to get our own used ev sooner than we hoped. Came on Friday and even after two years of research, using your very helpful videos among others it's still a steep learning curve for this old bird!😅